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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
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Education is a key to good taste
This really is a tough one....In general I think that those things that we consider "poor taste" or downright "vulgar" tend to be the result of ignorance or lack of a proper education.
Some people are fortunate enough to have been brought up surrounded by objects in good taste and have therefore sort of incorporated "taste" into their beings.
The rest of us, if we are lucky, can get educated in matters of taste by someone who has it. And that is much easier said than done. I guess that anything I have ever learned about good taste in the area of painting has been learned in some of the great museums of the world. "Hanging out" with the Old Masters as often as possible might be a good place to start any education in good taste...
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